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Harley MS 51
- Record Id:
- 040-002045879
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002045879
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0000dc
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 51
- Title:
- Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae; Jacobus Palladinus de Theramo, Consolatio peccatorum
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 3r-105v: Guido delle Colonne ['de Columnis' or 'de Columna'], Historia destructionis Troiae (A History of the Destruction of Troy) or Historia troiana, in 35 books with a prologue, epilogue and colophon. Prologue begins, ‘Licet cotidie vetera recentibus obruent nonnulla tamen iamdudum vetera precesserent'. The colophon states, 'Factum est autem presens opus Anno dominice incarnacionis millesimo ducentesimo octuagesimo septimo eiusdem prime indictionis feliciter a Guydone ad columpnis’ (f. 105v).
ff. 106r-184v: Jacobus Palladinus de Theramo ['Teramo' or 'Archano'], Consolatio peccatorum (Consolation of Sinners), ‘De victoria iuridica christi contra Sathanam Regem infernorum et peccatorum consolacione [… ]Universis christi fidelibus atque ortodoxe sancte matris ecclesie fidei cultoribus hoc breve compendium presbiter iacobus de theramo archidiaconus auesanus et canonicus […] ad vitam perhennem Amen. Explicit liber siue tractatus vocatus peccatorum consolacio prout hic notatur in fine’.
The manuscript contains a few additions:
f. 1v: A (?) saying: 'abs[que] (? suggellacrone) pudoris (? mirdd) / Ecce nona om[n]a (? componi)'; added in the 15th century.
f. 186r: A saying: 'Si mea penna valet melior mea littera fiet' (4x), and a (?) practice sentence: 'Henricus dei gracia rex anglie et francie et d[omi]n[u]s hibernie' (2x), added in the 15th century
f. 186v: Illegible pen-trials.
Decoration:
Page with gold, blue, and red floral border (f. 3r). Lombardic blue initials, three-line, with penwork decoration; two-line begining at f. 106r, with more detailed penwork. An added drawing of a (?) donkey's head in profile in brown ink on f. 185v. Concentric circles drawn with a compass, perhaps for a volvelle, on f. 186v.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002045879", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 51: Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae; Jacobus Palladinus de Theramo, Consolatio peccatorum" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002045879 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 51 : Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae; Jacobus Palladinus de Theramo, Consolatio peccatorum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0050]/040-002045879
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 270 × 190 mm (text space: 200 × 125 mm).
Foliation: ff. 186 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 1 unfoliated blank leaf between f. 105 and f. 106.
Collation: a2 (ff. 1–2), i–xiii8 (ff. 3–105b); xiv–xxiii8 (ff. 106–185), i (f. 186; a singleton). Catchwords and signatures added at the bottom right of the last page of each quire, often trimmed: gathering iii = ‘iii’, xiii = ‘xiii’; numbering restarts at gathering xiv = ‘i’, xxii = ‘ix’. Indicated by catchwords.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound on 20 September 1965.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Robertus Wesingham, (?) Benedictine monk of Bury St Edmunds, 15th century: obtained the manuscript for the Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, according to an inscription (see below) on f. 2v (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 351).
The Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, 15th century: its ownership inscription in a 15th-century hand on f. 2v: ‘Hu[n]c libru[m] p[ro]curauit monasterio \S[an]c[t]i Ed[mun]di/ ffrater Robertus Wesingh[a]m suis su[m]ptib[us] [et] expensis cuius anime p[ro]picietur deus Amen’; also an erased inscription ending ‘555’ on f. 3r, which may be part of a Bury pressmark 'B.555' (see M.R. James, ‘Bury St. Edmunds Manuscripts’ (1926), 251-60; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 90).
An unknown 16th-century English owner: inscribed on f. 186r: 'Hawke ys my name so saye mi mother'.
Thomas Lacey, 16th century: an inscription (see below) recording his gift to Thomas Oliver inscribed twice on f. 185v (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 213).
Thomas Oliver, perhaps the Thomas Oliver (d. 1610?) who was mathematician and physician at Bury St Edmunds, 16th/17th century: his ownership inscription (2x) on f. 185v: ‘Thomas Olyver me possidet ex dono Thome Lacei / Thomas Oliuerus me possidet ex dono Thomæ Lacei amen’ ; and his name repeated three more times below these inscriptions (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 261).
Sir Simonds D’Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton, acquired by him in 1625 for 4s: listed in his catalogues as A.215 and E.29 (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966), pp. 123 and 274; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 131).
Sir Simonds D’Ewes (d. 1722), 3rd baronet and grandson of the former: inherited and later sold the D’Ewes library to Robert Harley on 4 October 1705 for £450.
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley
Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d. 1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Robert Nares and others, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808–1812), I, p. 13.
A. I. Doyle, ‘Book Production by the Monastic Orders in England (c. 1375-1530), in Medieval Book Production: Assessing the Evidence, ed. by Linda l. Brownrigg, Proceedings of the Second Conference of The Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, Oxford, July 1998 (Los Altos Hills, California: Anderson-Lovelace, 1990), pp. 1-21 (p. 6).
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 20.
M.R. James, ‘Bury St. Edmunds Manuscripts’, English Historical Review, 41 (1926), 251-60.
Neil R. Ker, Richard Sharpe and James Willoughby, 'Guido de Columna, etc. — Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, King and Martyr', in Medieval Libraries of Great Britain 3, 2015 [accessed 23 Nocember 2020].
Richard Sharpe, ‘Reconstructing the Medieval Library of Bury St Edmunds Abbey: The Lost Catalogue of Henry of Kirkstead’, in Bury St Edmunds: Medieval Art, Architecture, Archaeology, and Economy, ed. by Antonia Gransden, Conference Transactions, 20 (Leeds: British Archaeological Association, 1998), pp. 204-18.
H. L. D. Ward and J. A. Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), I, p. 52.
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), pp. 123 [A.215] and 274 [E.29].
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 90, 131, 213, 261, 351.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Guido delle Colonne [de Columnis or de Columna], judge and poet, fl 13th century,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109290786
Jacobus Palladinus de Theramo [Teramo or Ancharano], c 1350-1417,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000061211814 - Places:
- England